rosiejo
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Hi everyone,
I've stopped by this board quite a lot in the last few weeks, thinking that maybe I too should write a pre-trip report, but then the thought of adding something else to my pre-trip to do list filled me with fear and I went back to reading every one else's threads
But today my ticker reads 19 days, and I'm thinking to heck with it, how long can it take to write a pre-trip report anyway?
So if you're all sitting comfortably and have time to spare, I'll start with some history.
It all started with a mouse...
My first trip to a Disney park was to the original, the place where it all began, Disneyland, back when I was 9 or 10 (that was a very long time ago and my memory is suffering!).
A few years later my parents told me and my little brother that we were going for a holiday of a lifetime to Disney World. We rented a villa nearer the airport than Disney World and had to get up very early every morning to get to the parks for opening. But my dad was a soldier so we were used to early mornings, and since this was our first visit we didn't know better. We hit the parks - armed with the unofficial guide and had a whale of a time.
Of course our "once in a lifetime" holiday didn't quite turn out to be that. A couple of years later we started talking about where to go for our summer holidays. My parents told us that Florida was too expensive and we would be going to France or Spain. But Dad came home from the travel agents with a pile of brochures with Mickey on the cover, and declared that it was only slightly more expensive to go back, and who wanted to sit on the beach for two weeks anyway? So we booked another trip... bought the newest copy of the UG and went back to visit the Mouse.
This story repeated every few years until I left home and bought a house with the man who is now my husband (but I'm getting ahead of myself!)
2003: When our house purchase went through we found ourselves with some money burning a hole in our pocket... we should go on holiday said DBF, we could get a late deal. But of course I had other ideas, forget the beach - let's go to Disney World!
{intermission} DBF comes from a family of wary travellers, I think he'd been on a plane four times by this point, all short trips to Europe, and here was I suggesting we sit on a plane for 9 hours to visit a Mouse
{end of intermission}
But love is blind... so we took ourselves off to the travel agents and booked us a fortnight in November, staying in the Raddission Maingate on the 192 (right next to the secret Sherberth Road entrance). I was slightly wary about staying in a hotel, as we'd always stayed in a villa on my family trips, but as there were only two of us the hotel was the most economical. So I bought the latest copy of the trusty UG and started planning the trip.
The holiday was of course fantastic - and I hoped that I had converted DBF enough to be able to take a future trip.
{intermission} our WDW tickets that trip included a free character breakfast, neither of us being too sure about eating the characters we instead opted to visit AKL and eat at Boma. So on our last day we checked out and headed over to that amazing hotel. After eating our fill we'd wandered the grounds, marvelling at the animals and how close they were to the rooms, one day we said wistfully, we'll save up enough to actually stay here... {end of intermission}
Fast forward to a dark October evening in 2004, and the two of us camping out in his paren't front room, our house being completely rennovated {that's a whole other story I won't bore you with} and DBF pops the question! What question? You know, will you marry me?
When I get over the shock I say yes, obviously, closely followed by; can we get married in Disney World, and honey moon at the AKL?
And that is the moment I knew he was converted as he
So in November 2005, following months of planning, family sagas, finally moving back in to our house, discovering the DIS boards, and TGM we tied the knot at Sunset Pointe and celebrated our mariage by spending three weeks in Florida, including 10 nights at the AKL - our first experience of staying on-property.
But that of course is a whole other trip report - see the link in my signature if you fancy a break from this one
I've stopped by this board quite a lot in the last few weeks, thinking that maybe I too should write a pre-trip report, but then the thought of adding something else to my pre-trip to do list filled me with fear and I went back to reading every one else's threads
But today my ticker reads 19 days, and I'm thinking to heck with it, how long can it take to write a pre-trip report anyway?
So if you're all sitting comfortably and have time to spare, I'll start with some history.
It all started with a mouse...
My first trip to a Disney park was to the original, the place where it all began, Disneyland, back when I was 9 or 10 (that was a very long time ago and my memory is suffering!).
A few years later my parents told me and my little brother that we were going for a holiday of a lifetime to Disney World. We rented a villa nearer the airport than Disney World and had to get up very early every morning to get to the parks for opening. But my dad was a soldier so we were used to early mornings, and since this was our first visit we didn't know better. We hit the parks - armed with the unofficial guide and had a whale of a time.
Of course our "once in a lifetime" holiday didn't quite turn out to be that. A couple of years later we started talking about where to go for our summer holidays. My parents told us that Florida was too expensive and we would be going to France or Spain. But Dad came home from the travel agents with a pile of brochures with Mickey on the cover, and declared that it was only slightly more expensive to go back, and who wanted to sit on the beach for two weeks anyway? So we booked another trip... bought the newest copy of the UG and went back to visit the Mouse.
This story repeated every few years until I left home and bought a house with the man who is now my husband (but I'm getting ahead of myself!)
2003: When our house purchase went through we found ourselves with some money burning a hole in our pocket... we should go on holiday said DBF, we could get a late deal. But of course I had other ideas, forget the beach - let's go to Disney World!
{intermission} DBF comes from a family of wary travellers, I think he'd been on a plane four times by this point, all short trips to Europe, and here was I suggesting we sit on a plane for 9 hours to visit a Mouse
{end of intermission}But love is blind... so we took ourselves off to the travel agents and booked us a fortnight in November, staying in the Raddission Maingate on the 192 (right next to the secret Sherberth Road entrance). I was slightly wary about staying in a hotel, as we'd always stayed in a villa on my family trips, but as there were only two of us the hotel was the most economical. So I bought the latest copy of the trusty UG and started planning the trip.
The holiday was of course fantastic - and I hoped that I had converted DBF enough to be able to take a future trip.
{intermission} our WDW tickets that trip included a free character breakfast, neither of us being too sure about eating the characters
we instead opted to visit AKL and eat at Boma. So on our last day we checked out and headed over to that amazing hotel. After eating our fill we'd wandered the grounds, marvelling at the animals and how close they were to the rooms, one day we said wistfully, we'll save up enough to actually stay here... {end of intermission}Fast forward to a dark October evening in 2004, and the two of us camping out in his paren't front room, our house being completely rennovated {that's a whole other story I won't bore you with} and DBF pops the question! What question? You know, will you marry me?
When I get over the shock I say yes, obviously, closely followed by; can we get married in Disney World, and honey moon at the AKL?
And that is the moment I knew he was converted as he
So in November 2005, following months of planning, family sagas, finally moving back in to our house, discovering the DIS boards, and TGM we tied the knot at Sunset Pointe and celebrated our mariage by spending three weeks in Florida, including 10 nights at the AKL - our first experience of staying on-property.
But that of course is a whole other trip report - see the link in my signature if you fancy a break from this one
we can go back to Disney World!
